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John AFOLABI

Assistant Professor
college of Liberal Studies (COLBS)
Theatre and Media Studies Programme

John Adebayo Afolabi, Ph.D is an Assistant Professor in Theatre and Media Art Programme, Bowen University Iwo. Osun State Nigeria. He is a specialist in Dramatic Literature, Theory and Criticism and Theatre Management. He is also a Counselor and Chairman, Fellowship of Ministers. All Souls Chapel, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Osun State- Nigeria.

Education
  • Ph.D. in Dramatic Literature -Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 
  • Master of Arts in Literature in English- University of Ilorin
  • Master of Education, Guidance and Counselling – Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
  • Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Dramatic Arts, University of Ife.
Research

Dramatic Literature, Theory and Criticism, Management of the Arts, Creative Writing.

Institutional Service
  • Adviser, Bowen Association of Theatre Arts Students’ Association
Selected Publications

Books and Monographs

  1. AFOLABI, J.A. (2014) To The Stars (A Play) Penthouse Publications: Ibadan
  2. AFOLABI, J.A. (2014) The Misogynist (A Psychological Drama) Penthouse Publications: Ibadan

Contribution to Books

  1. AFOLABI, J.A. (1999) “Olu Obafemi: The Soldier Ant that Falls errant Mammoths” in Larger than his Frame: Critical Studies on Olu Obafemi (Ed) Duro Oni and Sunday Enesi Ododo. Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization National Theatre, Lagos, pp. 50-56.
  2. AFOLABI, J.A. (2002) “Of Womb-men, We-men and Woe-men: Feminist Aesthetics, Theatre practice and the Democratic Process in Nigeria”. Published in Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists Book Theatre and Democracy in Nigeria (Ed) Ahmed Yerima and Ayo Akinwale. Kraft Books, Ibadan, pp. 126-135.
  3. AFOLABI, J.A. (2008) “The African Video Film and Images of Africa” in Africa through the Eye of the Video Camera (Ed) Foluke Ogunleye), Academic Publishers, Manzani Swaziland, pp. 166-175
  4. AFOLABI, J.A. (2004) “Harnessing the Potentials of the Performing Arts for National Development in the Era of Globalisation” in Locating the Local in the Global: Voices on a Globalised Nigeria. (Ed) Sola Akinrinade et al. Faculty of Arts Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and The International Institute for Education, New York, pp.149-158
  5. AFOLABI, J.A. (2013) “Benedict M. Ibitokun: The Cerebral Guardian of Ethereal Words of Life” in Existentialism Literature and the Humanities in Africa (Eds) Chijioke Uwasomba et al. Gottingen, Germany CUVILLIER VERLAG Publisher. pp. 35 – 43.
  6. AFOLABI, J.A. (2014) “Intimations of Social Dysfunctionality in the Plays of Ojo Rasaki Bakare” in Abdul Rasheed A.A. et al (Eds) Uncommon Artistry London: SPM Publications. pp. 124 – 137.
  7. AFOLABI, J.A. (2018) Foluke Ogunleye: “The Playwright as Moral Sentinel of Society” in Theatre, Media Arts and Popular Culture in Nigeria: A Festschrift in Memory of Prof. (Mrs.) Foluke Matilda Ogunleye. (Eds) Awuawer, T.J. and Babafemi Babatope SAP Publishing House Makurdi and Abuja Nigeria, pp. 135-152 
  8. AFOLABI, J.A. & Fatoki, O. V. (2020) “Migration, Racism and Human Devaluation in Africa Movies: Ousman Sembene’s Black Girl and Stephen Frear’s Dirty Pretty Things as Exemplifications” in Migration: Identity Construction and Reconstruction (Eds) Daramola, O.M.A. et al. Published for Faculty of Arts Obafemi Awolowo University by Timade Publications Ile-Ife Nigeria. Pp. 16-29

Published Journal Articles

  1. AFOLABI, J.A. (1994) “The Performing Arts in Nigeria Today: Praxis, Mercantile Considerations or Negative Pedagogy?” Nigerian Theatre Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, University of Abuja, Nigeria. Pp71-80.
  2. AFOLABI, J.A. (1999) “Sexploitation and the Performing Arts in Nigeria” The Performer: Journal of the Performing Arts, University of Ilorin, Vol. 1, No. 2. pp 8-20.
  3. AFOLABI, J.A. (2002) “Adebayo Faleti’s Magun: Cultural Pedagogy or Literary Pornography?” Ife Journal of the Institute of Cultural Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, pp. 231-245
  4. AFOLABI, J.A. (2004) “By the rivers of Babylon: The Bondage Motif In Rastafarian Arts, Life and Aesthetics” TINABANTU Journal of African National Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 37-49
  5. AFOLABI, J.A. (2004) “The Functional Perspective in African Oral Performance.” LWATI, A Journal of Contemporary Research, University of Swaziland, Vol. 1, June, pp. 20-30. 
  6. AFOLABI, J.A. (2017) “The Performing Arts and Installation of Political Etiquette in Nigeria”, West African Theatre and Performing Arts Journal, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana Vol 2 No. 2. June pp 1-15
  7. AFOLABI, J.A. (2017) “Plot as an Invaluable Accoutrement of Dramaturgy”, West African Theatre and Performing Arts Journal, University of Cape Coast Ghana, Vol.2 No.2 pp. 100-117
  8. AFOLABI, J.A. (2021) “The Creative Arts and Inevitability of Social Commitment” in American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Science (ARJHSS). Gillingham Kent, United Kingdom
  9. AFOLABI, J.A. (2021) “The Performing Arts in National Integration and Development of Human Society” in Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (GJAHSS) London United Kingdom 

Edited and Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. AFOLABI, J.A. (2015) “The performing Arts and the Task of Engendering reactions against the iniquity of gender inequity” in Simisola Odeyinka et al (eds.) Gender in the Post -2015 Development Agenda, Centre for Gender and Social Policy Studies, Ile-Ife, Obafemi Awolowo University pp. 423-428.

Articles Accepted for Publication

  1. AFOLABI, J.A. (2022) The Hiding Place of Kurumi: Critical and Social Perspectives on Ola Rotimi and His Theatre. Penthouse publications, Ibadan
  2. AFOLABI, J.A. (2022) Okete to de Fila and Panpe Abe (Play) Mariba Publications Ilorin. “
  3. AFOLABI, J.A. (2022) Iya Bale Laje (A Yoruba Play). Penthouse publications, Ibadan 
  4. AFOLABI, J.A. (2022) A Performance of African Epic in Wale Ogunyemi’s Langbodo in Book on Decolonizing Dramaturgy, Routledge
  5. AFOLABI, J.A. (2023) Tears of A Patriotic Rebel. (Poems for Performance) Penthouse publications, Ibadan